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From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling•org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k•org>,
	kvm-ppc@vger•kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove fpscr use from [kvm_]cvt_{fd,df}
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:34:12 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10192.1282700052@neuling.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282699836.22370.566.camel@pasglop>

In message <1282699836.22370.566.camel@pasglop> you wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 15:15 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > > > Do some 32 bit processors need this? 
> > > > 
> > > > In 32 bit before the merge, we use to have code that did:
> > > > 
> > > >   #if defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_E500)
> > > >    #define cvt_fd without save/restore fpscr
> > > >   #else
> > > >    #define cvt_fd with save/restore fpscr
> > > >   #end if
> > > > 
> > > > Kumar; does this ring any bells?
> > > 
> > > I don't see anything in the various 440 docs I have at hand that would
> > > hint at lfd/stfs adffecting FPSCR.
> > 
> > The way the ifdefs are, it's the other way around.  4xx procs don't need
> > to save/restore fpscr and others do.
> 
> Right, my bad. In any case, Paulus reckons it's all his mistake and we
> really never need to save/restore fpscr.

ACK :-P

Mikey

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-25  1:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-21 21:43 [PATCH] powerpc: remove fpscr use from [kvm_]cvt_{fd,df} Andreas Schwab
2010-08-23  0:23 ` Michael Neuling
2010-08-24  5:11   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-08-24  5:15     ` Michael Neuling
2010-08-24  5:39       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-08-25  1:30       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-08-25  1:34         ` Michael Neuling [this message]
2010-08-24  5:47   ` Kumar Gala
2010-08-24  5:51     ` Michael Neuling

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